This week, ASB Partnership scientists are
meeting in Bogor, Indonesia for a workshop to discuss and explore methodologies
that can be used to effectively account for leakage, often seen as a situation
where attempts to reduce carbon emissions from one place causes an increase in
emissions in another place.

A multifunctional
approach to REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and
degradation) will be far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
and increasing food production than the practice of intensifying agriculture and
sparing forests. Read more